Seaman Injured in Fall
While painting the ship's funnel, Timothy Lyons, 50, seaman of Bolton-street, Newcastle, slipped and fell to the deck yesterday. He suffered…
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Accidents, 1943
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High Title Injured
MELBOURNE.—High Title, recently retuned from the stud to be prepared for Autumn sprint races, injured hin[?] while working at Mentone, to-day…
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A verdict of accidental death was returned by the Coroner (Mr. A. W. Johns) at Kurri Kurri yesterday, when he held an inquest into the death of…
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Allan Bailey, 27, of Westcourt-road, New Lambton, was taken to Newcastle Hospital yesterday suffering from lacerations and contusions to…
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"Tommy the Pigmy Chief" (Ison Thomas, 35, an American negro pigmy), well-known sideshow performer, was drowned in Styx Creek, Islington, this afternoon, when a canoe capsized…
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A finding of accidental death was returned by the Coroner (Mr. A. G. Chiplin) yesterday, after an inquiry into the death of Sergeant Lenin Simon, 24,…
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Ernest Mason, 46. of Boolaroo. was admitted to Wallsend Hospital after a fall from his horse to-day…
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"Tommy, the Pigmy Chief," whose real name was Ison Thomas, was drowned in Styx Creek, Islington, on Saturday…
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Attempting to save a falling kitchen-dresser from striking a child, James Gill, 46, of Kilabent Bay, put his right hand through a window pane…
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While travelling to work, Patrick Huxley, 36, of Awaba-road, Toronto, was injured on Newcastle road, Wallsend. His motor-cycle and a…
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While cutting paspalum with a mattock, George Barnes, 56, of Merewether-street, Merewether, badly cut his left foot. Barnes is an employee of…
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Maurice Macey, 22, living at Awaba Road. Toronto, a miner employed at the Pacific colliery, was injured by coal and stone…
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Caught by a fall of stone in Stockton Borehole mine, Allen Paton, 32, a miner, of Balley-street, Adamstown, suffered abrasions to the head, back and a…
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Since the brownout regulations were instituted the record of fatal accidents in the Newcastle district has been steadily mounting…
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Morris Macey, 23, of Toronto, an employee at Pacific colliery, had his face, areas and chest lacerated when a shot blew out. Lake Macquarie Ambulance…
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Another accident occurred last night near the Swansea causeway at a spot where a young man was killed on Saturday night, and…
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When a runaway skin struck James Marshall, 27, miner of Daniel Street, Cessnock, at Aberdare Central Colliery to-day. It…
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The hoods of two military transport trucks were knocked off last night when the trucks were driven under the low bridge in…
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Two young men were injured, one seriously, when the motorcycle they were riding collided with a military lorry to-day in…
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SYDNEY, Friday.—An accidental shooting occurred at the Presbyterian Hostel in George-street, City, near the Haymarket to-night…
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